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Special Riemannian geometries modeled on distinguished symmetric spaces

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We propose studies of special Riemannian geometries with structure groups H1=SO(3)SO(5)H_1=SO(3)\subset SO(5), H2=SU(3)SO(8)H_2=SU(3)\subset SO(8), H3=Sp(3)SO(14)H_3=Sp(3)\subset SO(14) and H4=F4SO(26)H_4=F_4\subset SO(26) in respective dimensions 5, 8, 14 and 26. These geometries, have torsionless models with symmetry groups G1=SU(3)G_1=SU(3), G2=SU(3)×SU(3)G_2=SU(3)\times SU(3), G3=SU(6)G_3=SU(6) and G4=E6G_4=E_6. The groups HkH_k and GkG_k constitute a part of the `magic square' for Lie groups. Apart from the HkH_k geometries in dimensions nkn_k, the `magic square' Lie groups suggest studies of a finite number of other special Riemannian geometries. Among them the smallest dimensional are U(3) geometries in dimension 12. The other structure groups for these Riemannian geometries are: S(U(3)×U(3))S(U(3)\times U(3)), U(6), E6×SO(2)E_6\times SO(2), Sp(3)×SU(2)Sp(3)\times SU(2), SU(6)×SU(2)SU(6)\times SU(2), SO(12)×SU(2)SO(12)\times SU(2) and E7×SU(2)E_7\times SU(2). The respective dimensions are: 18, 30, 54, 28, 40, 64 and 112. This list is supplemented by the two `exceptional' cases of SU(2)×SU(2)SU(2)\times SU(2) geometries in dimension 8 and SO(10)×SO(2)SO(10)\times SO(2) geometries in dimension 32.

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@article{arxiv.math/0603663,
  title  = {Special Riemannian geometries modeled on distinguished symmetric spaces},
  author = {Pawel Nurowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0603663},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

A written version of a talk at the workshop `Special geometries in mathematical physics' held in K\"uhlungsborn, March 2006